Classical Rhetoric With Aristotle: Traditional Principles of Speaking and Writing Text

By Martin Cothran

Book Overview

Martin Cothran's Classical Rhetoric with Aristotle is a guided tour through the first part of the greatest single book on communication ever written: Aristotle's Rhetoric. With questions that will help the student unlock every important aspect of the book, along with fill-in-the-blank charts and analyses of great speeches, this companion text to Aristotle's great work will send the student on a voyage of discovery from which he will return with a competent knowledge of the basic classical principles of speech and writing. Classical Rhetoric also familiarizes students with three model speeches as examples of the three branches of classical oratory: The "Appeal of the Envoys to Achilles," from Homer's Iliad; the "Apology of Socrates," from the dialogue of Plato; and Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address." Students will also be asked to analyze Marc Antony's "Funeral Oration" from William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar as an example of a great speech that defies categorization. Classical Rhetoric has step-by-step daily assignments, giving students explicit instructions at every level.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930953445
• ISBN13: 9781930953444
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Memoria Press
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.